Tokyo Stock Exchange Tours In English

New York Times News Service

October 02, 1988

The Tokyo Stock Exchange`s new main office building, completed five months ago, is now open to visitors.

Tours are given in English, and the activity on the trading floor can be viewed from a gallery on the second floor. There, visitors can use personal computers that simulate the buying and selling of stocks.

A robot demonstrates the meaning of the traders` hand signals. And to help understand financial facts, Professor Stocks, a mechanical puppet, gives lectures, as a telephone provides English translation. There is also an assortment of videos on the world of trading.

666-0141) is near the Kayaba-Cho station on the Tozai or Hibiya lines or the Edo Bashi station on the Toei-Asakusa line.

Visitor`s gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and 9 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays. Trading sessions are 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m. weekdays and 9 to 11 a.m. Saturdays. The exchange is closed the second and third Saturday of each month, national holidays and the first and last three days of the year. Admission is free.